Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Uto in Japan

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Uto in Japan on Friday. The temblor was detected at 06:50:41 / 6:50 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us10005eae. Event ids that are associated: us10005eae. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/04/16 / 2016-04-28 21:50:41 / April 28, 2016 @ 9:50 pm. Exact location, longitude 130.6075° East, latitude 32.762° North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kobayashi, Sasebo, Akune. The epicenter was 9 km (6 miles) from Kumamoto (c. 680 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Nagasaki-shi (c. 410 200 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Kurume (c. 238 200 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Sasebo (c. 237 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Saga-shi (c. 165 200 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Ōmuta (c. 132 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days sixty-eight and in the last 365 days seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 10 km NNW of Uto, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	130.6075° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.762° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10km NNW of Uto, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-04-28 21:50:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-05-20 05:49:23	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	reviewed	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	298	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.427	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.23 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	126	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us10005eae	Id of event.
Event Code	10005eae	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10005eae,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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